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@cristina9532 - Hi and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! I understand how worried you must be to see your father having undiagnosed abdominal pain. Your FP did not order any tests? I agree with you that your father should have more diagnostic tests done. I can think of abdominal ultrasound, CT, lab work and EKG.
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I can’t tell you where to go, but he needs someone experienced in Internal Medicine. If you have a major university hospital nearby you could call and get an appointment. Obviously, if the pain gets bad enough, he should go to ER where they would do a lot of these tests.
I hope he can be seen soon- unusual to have abdominal pain for so long.
Can you get back to us when you know more?
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Hi Ingegerd and thank you for taking the time to reply to this, I appreciate it. Our GP is currently on holiday so we're waiting for him to get back to refer my father for a CT scan hopefully. The pain is not severe so I don't think he could go to the ER. He actually had absolutely no symptoms for a few days and now they're back.
It's not even that they're bad, he says it doesn't feel like pain, but rather like a fullness / bloating on his left side and sometimes right side. No back pain since that one evening. He also says he's constipated and that also went away those few days he had no abdominal issues. The GP comes back in a week so fingers crossed everything goes well.